Author Topic: SpaceX Falcon 9 : CRS-11 : June 3, 2017 : UPDATES (Read 210883 times)

Silmfeanor · « **Reply #320 on:** 06/03/2017 10:18 pm »

Congratulations to SpaceX and NASA - smooth launch, success for the rest!
Thanks again to NSF for the coverage- watched the launch -2 minutes till dragon sep mobile while on a train, before and after NSF was once again the source of updates and info.

Lee Jay · « **Reply #321 on:** 06/03/2017 10:24 pm »

It's exciting to see this getting boring!

Greg Pecchia · « **Reply #322 on:** 06/03/2017 10:26 pm »

Great job SpaceX!

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #323 on:** 06/03/2017 10:27 pm »

Post-launch presser coming up. Participants are in the room.

TOG · « **Reply #324 on:** 06/03/2017 10:27 pm »

Well done, SpaceX team. Once again making the impossible (for some others) look ordinary.

Looking forward to bringing the second stages back in one piece - yes I know, patience. It's just that they have gotten so good at doing things that "cannot be done"!

Many happy Relaunches...

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #325 on:** 06/03/2017 10:30 pm »

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #326 on:** 06/03/2017 10:31 pm »

Ven Feng - ISS Transportation Integration Office at JSC --- Congrats to SpaceX colleagues. Looking forward to Dragon COMING BACK to visit the ISS.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #327 on:** 06/03/2017 10:31 pm »

Ven: ISS ready to receive CRS-11 Dragon. Finishes packing Cygnus this morning and closed the hatch.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #328 on:** 06/03/2017 10:32 pm »

Hans (SpaceX): Very happy. Thanks NASA for cargo. Pad team worked awesome. Dragon team working hard now. Thanks to 45th Space Wing and Air Force. Special thanks and shout out to good weather.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #329 on:** 06/03/2017 10:32 pm »

Hans is super happy.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #330 on:** 06/03/2017 10:33 pm »

Hans: Dragon on orbit. Solar arrays deployed and working well. GN door will be opened soon. Berthing to Station at 10:10am EDT.

F9 second stage deorbited. Mission was excellent, great success. No hiccups. Count was quiet.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #331 on:** 06/03/2017 10:34 pm »

S2 deorbited near Australia as designed.

ace5 · « **Reply #332 on:** 06/03/2017 10:35 pm »

Sorry if this was pointed earlier by someone, but whats is this object?

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #333 on:** 06/03/2017 10:35 pm »

Chris gets first question

Naughtily breached L2 rules about recovery streamlining (joke, he's using that on purpose) and Hans confirms it.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #334 on:** 06/03/2017 10:36 pm »

Hans: First stage landed well really. Center landing. Take next couple days to sage and get back to hanger. Process is streamlined. Less inspections.

Ven: Cygnus demonstrating operational flexibility. Based on getting everything out and in, we decided to take 1 day op to unberth Cygnus. It's has two post-unberth experiments.

Toastmastern · « **Reply #335 on:** 06/03/2017 10:37 pm »

Congratz on the launch SpaceX! Always funny to watch!

Good job by everyone involved

//Toastmastern

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #336 on:** 06/03/2017 10:37 pm »

Hans: LZ-1 painted for this landing. Other than that, fine-tuned minor parts of landing. No overall changes.

Ven: Good shape with ISS consumables. 6months of consumables on all counts. Very good. Literally tons of science on this mission.

Flying Beaver · « **Reply #337 on:** 06/03/2017 10:39 pm »

Hans: Black paint on LZ-1 "More Conductive".

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #338 on:** 06/03/2017 10:39 pm »

Hans: Bulgariasat is still mid-June.

Ven: CRS-2 vendors all doing well. PDR review are making progress. One mission turned on for CRS-2. Orbital ATK based on when their CRS-1 extended contract ends.

ChrisGebhardt · « **Reply #339 on:** 06/03/2017 10:41 pm »

Hans: Turning things into routine, learning to deal with the operation better and better each time. Launching from both coast is somewhat new in terms of congestion of the manifest on both coast. But not a problem.